Shim, Grace
Summary: Chloe Chang travels to Seoul to meet her deceased father's ultra-rich family, but there is a reason why her mom kept her away from the Nohs, and Chloe begins to wonder if her new family's intentions are pure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIIceberg Slim
Summary: Trick Baby tells the story of "White Folks," a blue-eyed, light-haired, con-artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a "Trick Baby," the child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his hood dreams and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cash Money Content 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ICEShim, Grace K.
Summary: "Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SHILim, Elizabeth
Summary: Forty years after becoming the Blue Fairy, Chiara Belmagio defies the rules of magic to help her old friend Geppetto, and when her sister--now the heartless Scarlet Fairy--discovers the transgression, they decide to settle things with a wager, with the lives of Geppetto and Pinocchio hanging in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIMLim, Emily
Summary: When Benji receives an origami book, he tries hard to fold the paper animals. But he fails to get them right and gives up - until his new neighbour Yumi shows him a surprising way to look at his creations. Their special friendship unfolds in a delightful story that readers will enjoy again and again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AFCC Publications 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Set Japanese Lim-Leh 2016Lim, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mustard Seed Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lim 2009Lim, Roselle
Summary: "Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes - or misfortunes - in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALIAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLLim, Dominic
Summary: "Quito Cruz might be a composing and piano genius, but he's a few notes short of success. Broadway, here I don't come. But Quito knows what the problem is. Or rather who. Because ever since that night in college-with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki--his inspiration has been completely MIA ... Now Quito's beloved dad wants him to put on a charity performance in his hometown. And there's one hella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMLim, Elizabeth
Summary: Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent’s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna—the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn’t see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she's the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king's visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIMLim, Hope
Summary: Sofia and May find a way to keep their special friendship alive when May moves away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMLim, Roselle
Summary: At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINLim, Elizabeth
Summary: "Maia Tamarin proved her skill as a tailor when she wove the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it will take more than a beautiful gown to hide the darkness rising up within her in the sequel to Spin the Dawn"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: A bird-loving little girl gazes at the feathered friends she passes during daily rides to school on the back of her father's bike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan--time travel has been invented in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLSeil, William.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson board the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage, where Holmes is to carry out a secret government mission. Soon after departure, highly important submarine plans for the US navy are stolen. Holmes and Watson must work through a list of suspects which includes Colonel James Moriarty, brother to the late Professor Moriarty - but will they find the culprit before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLRuby, Ilie.
Summary: Raised by a mother who follows the cycles of the ocean and moon, sisters Ruthie and Dolly confront the social and sexual mores of their Long Beach, California home in the 1970s while Ruthie hides the truth about her young daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2012